The records for the 1950 U.S. Census were just released Friday morning. The National Archives released them just after midnight on April 1, and an agreement was put in place that census records would ...

This image taken from microfilm and provided by Ancestry.com shows a 1940 U.S. Census ledger page that includes an entry for Jacqueline Bouvier. Boubier, who became Jacqueline Kennedy when she married ...

With the help of a national volunteer project involving more than 100,000 people, 1940 census records for California and more than two dozen other states have now been indexed by name and can be ...

It was the first census after World War II. The baby boom had begun. The Great Migration of Black residents from the Jim Crow South to places like Detroit and Chicago was in full swing. And some ...

Amateur sleuths will be hunched over their computers Monday morning. Pajamas will be optional. The National Archives and Records Administration will release records from the 1940 census, offering a ...

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It is now easy to access information on individuals from that census, but beware of misspelled names. By Michael Wines The National Archives and Records Administration posted millions of records from ...